SMITH, Huron Herbert
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SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883-1933), Indiana-born ethnobotanist who became the first official Curator of Botany at the Milwaukee Public Museum when the department was created in 1912. Smith spent about five weeks on Santa Catalina Island from May 26 to July 4, 1912. He collected 142 numbers: vicinity of Avalon, Avalon Valley, valley-end trails up to 1200 feet altitude, Pebble Beach Road, Pebble Beach Canyon, Rock Spring Canyon, Summit, Hay Press and Middle Ranch Canyon, Silver Canyon, White's Beach Valley, Swain's Canyon. [Millspaugh & Nuttall]. His specimens are at the Field Museum, Chicago, as are about 48 photos he took while on Santa Catalina Island.
Smith died on February 25, 1933, in Glenview, Illinois, at the age of 49, and was buried in Madison County, Indiana.
- Huron Herbert Smith's 1912 Santa Catalina Island Images<br
Juncus collected by H. H. Smith on Santa Catalina Island on June 18, 1912 on the Road to Middle Ranch.
Field Museum Herbarium, Chicago
Stage coach road from Summit to Avalon, 1912 
Mountains from Summit to North end of island, 1912 
Tom Cat rock at mouth of Silver Canyon, waves crashing on rocks and shore, 1912 
In Silver Canyon, 1912 
Avalon Harbor from Mountain, 1912 
Avalon Harbor close view, 1912 
Avalon Harbor from Mount Doublet, 1912 
Avalon Bay, 1912 
Strs. [Steamers or steam ships?] Cabrillo and Hermosa in Avalon Harbor, 1912 
Hancock Banning's home. Descanso Canyon, 1912 
Descanso Canyon, 1912 
Sugar Loaf rock and road to Descanso Canyon
with a very large wooden ladder for climbing, and a man standing nearby, 1912
Sugar Loaf rock and road to Descanso Canyon with a very large wooden ladder for climbing, woman, plant collector or artist standing nearby, 1912 
Heteromeles arbutifolia. Avalon Canyon. Toyon or California Holly. Rosaceae. 1912 
Close up of tree bark. Heteromeles arbutifolia. Avalon Canyon. Toyon or California Holly. Rosaceae. 1912 
Ceanothus cuneatis. Towards Summit, 1912 
Close up of tree bark. Ceanothus arboreus. Tree Lilac and Island Mt. Lilac. Rhamnaceae, Felt Leaf, 1912 
Rhus laurina Laurel Sumac tree Anacardiaceae, 1912 
Rhus laurina Laurel Sumac tree Anacardiaceae close up of tree trunk, 1912 
Cercocarpus parvifolius tree. Near Summit (Rosaceae) Mahogany, 1912 
Cercocarpus parvifolius tree trunk. Near Summit (Rosaceae) Mahogany, 1912 
Cercocarpus traskiae, close up of tree trunk, 1912 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry tree, 1912 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry tree, 1912 
Rhamnus insularis. Island redberry.
Road to Middle Ranch and cactus plants nearby, 1912
Quercus tomentella Engelm. Island Oak tree, 1912 
Vale in Bulrush canyon. Quercus tomentella Engelm,
close up of trunk Showing grove principally of Island Oak trees, 1912
Rhus integrifolia tree, 1912 
Rhus integrifolia close up of tree trunk, 1912 
Hillside of Ceanothus arboreus. Tree Lilac and Island Mt. Lilac, 1912 
Quercus lobata. Valley oak tree, 1912 
Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise or Greasewood) plants in bloom, 1912 
Quercus lobata. Valley oak tree, 1912 
Quercus lobata. Valley oak close up of tree trunk, 1912 
Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood; also known as western balsam poplar
or California poplar tree, 1912
Sambucus [caerulea] glauca. Large elder tree on golf links, Avalon Canyon, 1912 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry tree, 1912 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry close up of tree trunk, 1912 
Ceanothus arboreus. Tree Lilac and Island Mt. Lilac, 1912 
Rhamnus insularis. Island redberry close up of tree trunk, 1912 
Catalina Ironwood tree. Lyonothamnus floribundus, 1912 
Catalina Ironwood tree. Lyonothamnus floribundus, 1912 
Catalina Ironwood close up of tree trunk.
Lyonothamnus floribundus, 1912
Grove of Ironwood [Lyonothamnus floribundus] growing on side of Swain's Canyon, elevation 1400 feet, 1912 
Women and men landing at the isthmus on the dock. Sailboat at dock, 1912 
Catalina Harbor at Isthmus. Cactus plants.
One of the three natural fish traps in the world, 1912
The isthmus, 1912 
Moonstone beach with people on shore and
glass bottomed paddle boat named Empress in the water, 1912
Pasadena YMCA, several large white tents, encamped at White's Beach landing, 1912
